Rabu, 11 Oktober 2006

Plug-in Diesel Hybrids on Google Talks

As a follow up to the previous biofuels talk by Vinod Khosla, Google Talks now has a presentation on plug-in diesel hybrids. Reed Benet presents an interesting system view where he argues that bio-diesel is more efficient than ethanol from the production stage (growing, gasification) to its use in a diesel engine. He also talks about interesting possibilities of integrating these cars with the electrical grid.

[via The Energy Blog]

Senin, 02 Oktober 2006

Dutch 'Cradle to Cradle' documentary

The Dutch tv-show 'Tegenlicht' made a very interesting documentary about Cradle to Cradle design, based on and in cooperation with the writers of the book with this title: McDonough and Braungart.
The voice-over is in Dutch but all the interviews are in English, so anyone will understand most of this documentary. It can be seen on-line on the following website (click in the upper-right corner on 'Video: bekijk de uitzending AFVAL=VOEDSEL')

http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/30458986/

For all of you interested in eco-design this definitely is a must-read book and must-see docu :)